Cellphone trader mugged in capital

Staff Correspondent
Muggers snatched Tk 5 lakh from a cellphone trader and stabbed his employee in the capital's Elephant Road area yesterday. The victims were Mozammel Hossain Sabuj, an owner of a cellphone shop at Motaleb Plaza, and his employee Mamun. They were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Mozammel's brother Anwar Hossain said a gang of muggers attacked the victims when they were going to their business place after withdrawing the money from a bank on Elephant road around 4:00pm. Locals caught one of the muggers and handed him over to police. Police said they were trying to arrest the other muggers and recover the money.